I imagine my past medical notes to be a charge sheet. The charge is that I am dependent, difficult and a time waster. I have no right of reply or appeal. Clinical opinion can never be challenged or erased…. more
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My experience of the Community Rehabilitation Service

Community Rehabilitation When people heard that I was being supported by the Community Rehabilitation Service their immediate thought was often… more
Whiteness as a chemical restraint in the statutory guidance of the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more
Cognitive justice and survival
Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more
Psychiatric Hospital Left Me Suicidal and Homeless – We Need a Human Rights-Based Approach to Mental Health Care

People are dying because of a lack of support and access to care… listen to survivors about what works for us. Work with us to create safe places where we can heal and try to move on with our lives…. more
Through Pain Unbearable and Impossible to Name
Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more
Why The KillTheBill Movement Affects Everyone
On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more
Book Review – Linda Gask’s ‘Finding True North: The Healing Power of Place’

NSUN member Heather Cobb reviews Linda Gask’s new book, Finding True North… more
Nothing about us without us: why lived experience is invaluable to peer support
When looking at the holes in support systems we are forced to reconcile with the fact that although lived experience… more
Facilitating brave spaces online
Blog by Make Space Collective, April 2021 Facilitating brave conversations online Make Space is a user-led collective. We create spaces for… more
Let me die, before I am killed
Let me die, before I am killed – a black male schizophrenic plea in relation to the Mental Health Act… more
Reflecting on a peer support partnership of 13 statutory and VCSE organisations
I am very proud to have been part of the work which the ‘Principled Way of Working, Peer Support in… more